The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-06-18
BroalArin'S New York Letter.


O'Brien, after the peris Of his Canadian
campaign. His foot was once more en-
American sol, and New York had promised
him whenever he got back "cead millea
faltthe," which for the benefit Of those who
are not as Yipe Milesian scholars as myself;
1 interpret, as "a hundred thousand well
comes" Funds were hberally subscribed;
all the clans were notified to be on hand
banners were painted, fireworks bought,
bands engaged, and iJ certainly looked as II
1t was going. to be one of the grandest
demonstrations eyer paid 70 an individual
tnot citizen of the United i>tatesl since
the foundation of the republic. II is an
open secret that our Irish population are
not unit upon any one subject except on
the question Of Home Rule, and If may
commit an Irish bull, BY DIVINE RIGHT
they ere by no means a unit on that, and
when II cones to the means to bring 1t
about there are nearly as many factions as
there are counties between the Hill of
| Howth and Dlngle Bay. The arrange
ments for the reception were not complet-
ed, when each one Of the factions set to
work to, capture the Irish patriot. Tam
many made q bold dash. for him; for as
everybody knows tho reliance Of Tammany
for political success has been the Irish vote
of this, the first Irish city in the world.
The Kellys. the O'Brien's, the McQuades,
the Duffys, the McLoughlns, the O'Con-
nors and Clearys, have always been able to
marshall their hosts, in their respective
wards, on election day; and the hundred
and twenty or thirty thousand votes they
generally paralSzed the rest of the State
But Tammany though power is not the
only power; Henry George and Father
McGlynn represent the labor vote-or that
!; portion of, Il that represent the advanced
theories of Mr.. George on the land ques-
tion. They thought 1t would be grand
opportunity to give Mr.. George boom, so
they took control of the job as far as the
organization was concerned; and although
they did not contribute much. of the cash,
they contriyed to have the handling of all
that was subscribed, and so they elbowed
Tammany out of the way, laid out the
whole programme, drafted a set Of resolu-
tions, chose chairman, nominated the
speakers, and in short got everything fixed
for their nttle boom.
, The Sixty-nlnth regiment was Get into
' line, everv member of which, has an in
e tense hatred for the British crown, and ar
s equally intense love for Ould Ireland
e Somehow the Knights of Labor were also
y wheeled in, perhaps because they thought
In view Of future contingencies, it woult
+ not be wise to. be left ON the outside. Ther
there was the Dynamite Brigade, repre-
sented by 0'Donovan Rosa and Dicl
q short, and the Clan ma Ghael, and the TIVE
I wings of the Ancient Order of Hibernian
6 whom, the police had to keep apart las
y ST. Patrici's Day, and tie, Fenian Brother
!, hood, and another branch of the dynamit
IS ers, represented by one lyman, and Nc
e Maekin the chairman who presided at TY
e mans meeting only few nights before
!, Now. besides all these factions is a con
u servative party of Irishmcn, among th
l. wealthiest and most respectable in Ne,
II York: men who, while fulfilling their dutie
IL as American citizens, have never faltere
u in their love for their natiye land, and VIII
IS have worked night and day,and haye give
their time and their money to anythin
that promised to better the condition G
II Ireland and the Irish. High-minded hor
&c orable men; patriots in the highest an
Il puTest sense,-never conniYing for office @
Il petty personal advantage, but ever ready t
IL make any sacrifice that promised adventag
ie 10 Ireland. OF this class Is Eugene Kell,
&c j. j. Donohue, and many others coul
~ name, and those gentlemen were all know
&c to Mr.. O Brien, and in any public step b
:! took in this country, he was very apt t
~ listen to their counsel. Common decenc
III would have suggested that in rendering
ie public reception to gentleman whom the
III desired to honor, that, at least, the person
" who controlled the movement should
agreeable TO the guest, and that the resoll
80 .ions Offered should meet with his sanctio
= and approval; but the men who seized IL
y. meeting had very little care for Mr.. o
"A Brien or Ould Ireland; the main questio
Ia was how Mr.. George could capture the bul
m Of the Irish vote at the next PRESIDENT
= election. He had Father McGlynn, ar
or Father McGlynn has an enthusiastic fc
~ lowing, and Father McGiynn was on haI
an to make speech. On the same stand wi
ir. the anarchist, George Block, who has bee
n at the bottom Of half the labor distur
an ances in the country, and all expected
profit by the occasion. Mr.. O'Brien's CO
fidentlal advisers notified him of the tr;
In that was set for him, and he resolved n
.er to be caught. The resolutions were vi
k tual denunciation of Archbishop Corrigf
tn and the Pope, and very pronounced e
ey dOrsemsRt of the author of Progress al
be Poverty and DIR. McGlynn.
Oh Mr.. O'Brien is a shrewd man of Il
te, world, who has had large experience
ITS public life, aud that he is brave man 60
ed without saying Much as he desired pu
an lie recognition and endorsement in Ne
York, he was not prepared to pay such
price as the projectors of the processit
=. asked him, namely, to allow set of ola
-. ant and wire-pulling politicians to use hi
- as public pnppit, and the cause which
holds SO sacred as means of adVaHcil
their own political schemes. In no act
I Mr.. OBrien's, since he landed on o
9. shores, has he deserved greater credit thi
~ in the magnificent display of courage und
~ ~ circumstances as trying as ever tested t
his courage Of mortal man The triekste
m failed; but Mr. 'Brien, if he did miss I
great demonstration, goes back TO Irelai
At with untarnished honor. Inthe meantlr
me there is uproar and reerimination all alo
,ea the line, and all the societies are ready